Description of Problem:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql startup script does not read any
configuration file for 'postmaster' options. Therefore if one
needs to pass some extra, like '-i' to make database accessible
over a network, one has to edit this script one way or another.

Indeed. But this is not so obvious and easy for a beginner to find
that in documentation. How about a comment to that effect in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql, with references
to more extensive documents (section 3.4 in html docs and README.rpm-dist)
on the subject? It is easy to find when known what to look for but
documents one is likely to read when starting clearly say that '-i' is
needed.

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